Self-discovery by Observation

As you know,
nothing affects us as much as the answer we give to the question:

"Who am I?"

For the first time, in 50 years of my life, LIFE makes sense to me. At last, I see how "everything" fits together. Until now, there was always a feeling, "If this fits there and this fits here then where does this fit in?"

I would like to enjoy life to its fullest potential, doing what ever needs to be done without hurting anyone or anything. Don't you? If not, why not?

The real question is, "How can I practically achieve this desire, to enjoy life to its fullest potential all the time, continuously?"

It is said, that where there is a will there is a way. When the body, mind and soul create together, in harmony, there is no limit to what we can experience. Our inner Being is the key to that experience and our mind is the key to the first step towards that experience.

If that is true, then what could be more important in my life than to get into that harmony? And if enjoying life is the most important thing in my life, then why am I not enjoying life? What is the hindrance?

Further on this Page:

• Master of All My Faculties
• Law of Attraction
• Little About Me
• What Is The Truth?
• Self-discovery
• Realization
• Life problems

Master of All My Faculties

Basically, the usual hindrance to enjoying my life is that I am not consciously the Master of my own life. My will is not been done by all of my faculties. I am divided, disunited within.

But who is this "I" that would like to enjoy life to its fullest potential? Is it the Mind, Ego, Soul or the body? Or is it something else?

"Ah, who cares!" some might say, "As long as I am enjoying my life and not at the expense of another being or borrowing from my future time; like taking some substance, to enjoy the present moment and then having hangover or some unpleasant after-effects later."

I agree, but how do I enjoy the present moment all the time, consistently?

True joy is experienced only when all aspects of me are in harmony with the desires of my Soul, because it knows all and its wishes are the best for me. I call my Soul or Spirit, the real me, it is eternal or timeless. Or it could be called, God's representative within me.

Unfortunately, most of the time, as most, I am so identified with my own creation the Ego, or my mind, or my body, that I am not even aware of my Soul's wishes, my deepest and the best desires.

I awoke one morning and I've noticed that I was not happy and there was no objective reason for that. It was a day not much different from the usual. But since I've been practicing observing my thoughts for some time, I immediately realized that it was my thoughts that where influencing my mood.

I have observed that my thoughts determine my moods and when I control my thoughts I control my moods. When I think happy thoughts I am happy.

What many people do not realize is that it is possible to become a Master of your own thoughts and eventually of your own life. It is not possible to become a Master of all your faculties without getting your own thoughts under your own control first. I hope that what follows will help you to make your life more enjoyable.

Law of Attraction

There is a Law that is called the Law of Attraction. Like attracts Like. Thoughts attract thoughts of their own kind. Quantity of particular thoughts produces corresponding feelings, moods and things. Thoughts are things.

We are what we believe ourselves to be, in our innermost being. We are the authors of our own life, Masters in it and not the victims as we so often choose to think of ourselves. Have you not noticed that we behave according to who we believe we are, in our deepest level of our being?

Most of us unconsciously defining and redefining our answer to the question; "Who I am?" And live our life according to that definition.

Our every act is an act of self-definition, an announcement and a demonstration of who we are. And this is what I am doing as I am composing this WebSite, not only discovering what I've created myself to be but also re-defining myself to what I would like to be.

I would like to share a little about me and few other things, before going on to consider, how to experience what we consciously want to experience; how to be conscious authors of our own life; consciously originating our own actions and circumstances. And not be as most, who are unconscious authors of their own life.

Little about me:

I am Wally (Vladimir) Kuskoff. I was born in China in 1951, the first born of 9 children to Russian parents. I was 14 years old when immigrated to Australia. Since 1983 I have been living in Finland and while living in Finland I was a Christian Missionary to Russia for several years. I've worked and studied in Australia, New Guinea, Philippines, USA and Sweden. I've also visited many countries. I have two grownup daughters.

The main interest in my life has been to discover the real meaning or the central purpose to life and to attain it. This search has lead me to many parts of the world and to try out many things. I've enjoyed some of the best of the teachings of Christianity but I found that it was not the best way to look at reality, for me, for now. I suppose it is "different strokes for different folks".

I wanted to make the most of the most important aspects of life. This desire has lead me to investigate the best in Christianity and it was the experience of the best of the Saints, who where mystics.

Then to my surprise I discovered that mystics of different persuasions (religions) have experienced very similar perspectives of reality through different approaches. So, if that is the case, then what is the best approach for me?

As I searched, I found so much advice, so many opinions, so many meaningful experiences, so many interesting supernatural phenomena and so many books to so many secrets to so many things. I do not have the time for them all.

Let's say, you were to ask for directions from many people on how to get to some place or how to enjoy life. Some may give you the right directions, others thought they were giving you the right directions but were not, and others may have lied. Out of the right directions, one of them would probably be easier to follow.

Then you might ask, "How would I know which one is the right and the easiest? And how would I know if you are not deceived yourself?"

Don't believe in anything. Not even what you read here. Have your own experiences.

I recommend that, if what I am saying has the ring of truth for you, then the best thing for you to do is to try it out and see for yourself. That's what I would do, in a similar situation.

What is the truth?

Would you not agree with me, that the ultimate truth is:

1. Nothing in my world is real, if I see it as an illusion.
2. The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it.
   Don't I decide what something means to me?
3. I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is.
   Is there a better way to re-create myself anew?

I believe that Life should be enjoyable!

And it is enjoyable,
when I choose to be loving,
joyful, grateful, accepting and
blessing everyone and everything.

If you do not agree with me, then what is the reason? Please share it with me.

What is the reality of who we are?

What is the truth of why we are here on earth?

Self-discovery

We are convinced more by the arguments,
that we ourselves have discovered,
than by those, that have been produce for us by others.
- Pascal

You cannot teach a man anything.
You can only help him
to discover it within himself.
- Galileo

These pages are self-discovery and re-creation. In some similar way as an artist paints a picture because he takes delight in that painting, because it is his self-expression, his glory, his well-being his joy and satisfaction.

I do this not because I want anything from anyone, but because I want to experience myself being the best I can be towards everyone and everything. It would be great if you too could be the best you can be, not for me but for yourself. For what ever you do for others, you are doing for yourself.

I love, I care, I give . . . because I want to experience myself as loving, caring, giving . . . and not because you are in need. It is a revealing of my inner being. It is a re-creation of myself anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision I ever held about Who I Am.

Everything I do, I do for myself. For whatever I do for others I do for me. Besides, it makes me happy to see others happy. What goes around comes around.

My intention by this Site is also to be of HELP to you, to solve your personal problems more efficiently through self-observation. This Site is here to encourage you to discover who you really are; it is here to comfort and to inspire you to enjoy life to its fullest.

I intend to express my truth the best way I know how, sometimes using other peoples expressions and at other times giving a link to the WebPages where I got the quotes from (but that does not mean I agree with all of what the author has to say). It could just mean that I like the way he expressed that idea. It is a way for me to acknowledge my appreciation for his part in influencing my life for the good.

All that is good here and is said well is mine, no matter by whom it is said, first. And I'll be honored if you can make my truths - yours, personally.

Everything in creation is moving and changing, including my views. By the time you read this I may have changed my perspective on that subject.

Realization

In February 12, 2002, after I been working on an article for some days, on the subject of How to be the Master of Your Own Life, I've realized that I have been told what to do all my life and I am not in charge of my own life even as much as I thought I was.

First I was told by my parents what I am to do and what to think, then by teachers, then the Bible became my Master/Teacher and eventually, without realizing, I was basically looking for someone to tell me what to do.

I have been a child and then a student all my life. I was expecting to be told by someone what my purpose for life is; what the truth is; and what I should do with my life and in my life.

Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch have helped me to realize that God does not want to order me around or tell me what to do, then why should I let anyone else tell me what to do? I should be the Master of my own life. Betrayal of myself in order not to betray another was betrayal nonetheless. It was the highest betrayal.

After the realization, I felt like I've been kicked out of my nest, and I did not know what to do and there was no desire to do anything.

Then I decided, that since I Am (that I exist), then I'll rather enjoy my life, but I was so burdened with the baggage of the past, that the question was, "How do I enjoy my life?"

I have come to conclusion that to be of most help to myself, to others and to enjoy my own life to its fullest, I would need to become a Master of myself.

The first step to mastery is to become aware of your own thoughts. That is become conscious of the thoughts that influence you experience. Then learn to use them for what you choose for yourself to experience. So that eventually you have no involuntary or compulsory thoughts.

While I was redefining myself from being a student to a Master I needed to do something, so as not to be terrorized by the habits of my mind.

Re-composing this Website gave me that opportunity. Not only to discover what I've created myself to be; but also to re-define myself to what I would like myself to be.

If we are the authors of our own life, Masters in it and not the victims as we so often choose to think of ourselves.

Then our every act is an act of self-definition, an announcement and a demonstration of who we are. Then Thoughts are things. Because what we think, we create. What we create, we become. What we become, we express. What we express, we experience. What we experience, we are. What we are, we think. What we think, we create . . . and the circle continues.

Then the purpose of my life should be to re-create myself anew in each moment, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision I ever held about Who I Am.

I hope that what follows will help us to make our life more enjoyable and to become Masters of our own thoughts and eventually of our own life. For where the majority of your thoughts lie, there lies your destiny.

This Website is not to be read as a novel or a teaching on some subject that is read and soon forgotten. It is a collection of thoughts with some explanations on what to do in life and with life. It is to be read and reread, so as to be reminded of the most important aspects of life.

Here is something that I need to hear again and again to be reminded that Life problems are not solved by thinking:

Life problems

From time to time we all seem to try to solve our Life problems by thinking and all that our thinking manages to do is to make them bigger or more complicated. Unlike mathematical or technical problems, our inner problems or Life problems can only be solved by Life (God). Trust Life and watch how the problems will be solved or dissolved.

Do not resist or repress anything within you, if you can't do it now then work toward that end, until you can just observe. Consciously watching, being aware of all that is. Just let it be. Accept what is. Do not judge it or disapprove of it.

No, I am not saying that you should be absolutely passive. On the contrary, be as positively active as you desire. SMILE and observe how your inner state changes and with it your whole life situation, because you have let go and let Life take care of you.

Life problems are not solved by thinking. Thinking is what created it in the first place. Thinking is the problem, particularly the negative thinking. As you let go and observe, you will discover that all things work together for your good. Life is on your side and it knows what is best for you. Trust it.

Next, I would like invite you to consider with me, how to be the authors of our own life - consciously; to be the originator of our own actions and circumstances. To experience what we consciously want to experience.

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On This Page: Self-discovery by Observation

• Master of All My Faculties
• Law of Attraction
• Little About Me
• What Is The Truth?
• Self-discovery
• Realization
• Life problems

Quotations and links to the WebSites that have been very helpful to me:

Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch. His books have influence me so much that I've rewriten my website and I am still doing it. As much as I've read, does not contradict my experience of life but it did contradict a lot of my theology that I held for decades. His writings help me to comprehend who I am and what my Creator could be like.

Mysticism in World Religions - quotations drawn from literatures of six religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam/Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Eckhart Tolle - is not aligned with any particular religion or doctrine or guru; his teaching embraces the heart, the essence, of all other traditions, and contradicts none of them. He is able to do what all the great masters have done: to show us, in simple and clear language, that the way, the truth, and the light is within us. A state of enlightenment is attainable, here and now. It is possible to live free of suffering, free of anxiety and neurosis.

Barry Long His teaching does not come from any tradition but from his own direct experience of life. He said "I speak only of truth, love, life, death and God"

Osho He led his disciples on paths, which were philosophical, scientific, psycho-analytical and religious.

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